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minivish
minivish
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High School - 10th Grade

According to the speaker in "Girl", what roles are men and women supposed to play?

 

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Posted by minivish on Saturday July 19, 2008 at 3:50 PM and tagged with girl, relationships, roles.

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  1. sullymonster Teacher
    Community / Jr. College

    As portrayed by the young protagonist in this first person short shory, men are dominant to women but women are controlling of men.  Weird irony, huh?  She has learned from her mother that women must always be virtuous and not "sluts".  Boys can play on the streets, but girls must never play with them, or else the girls will be considered sluts.  However, the mother also teaches how to love a man, how to take care of a man... even how to take care of an unwanted pregnancy.  Clearly, women are the ones who run the daily life of men.  Even so, the emphasis on being virtuous shows that women must maintain a reputation because she must have a man.  If this wasn't necessary, then the reputation wouldn't matter.  So, according to the understanding of the speaker, women must have men to survive, but men rely on women for all means of that survival.

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    http://www.enotes.com/girl/

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    Posted by sullymonster on Sunday July 27, 2008 at 9:10 PM